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eggtray en · NOUN

Etymology

From egg + tray.

Meanings

  1. A tray for holding eggs, as in an incubator, refrigerator, etc.
    • Mrs. Stein now was swiftly but surely removing the egg-trays from the incubator. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 253:

Forms

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egg-tray alternative lexicographic

Translations (1)

sw trei ya mayai (Tray to hold eggs)